I built a new system last October and it was going great, until the ASUS P5K-E motherboard died on me. Once I went cruising various forums and saw how many people were having similar problems with that board (to the point of multiple RMAs needed) I decided to just get a Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R to replace it instead of spending weeks in RMA hell with a broken computer. The system is up and running, but has one problem: the RAM. I can only use two sticks of my 1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667 memory, and I can only use two if I don't go dual-channel. Since one of the sticks died with the motherboard I'm having doubts about the others, and with RAM dirt cheap right now I'm going to just get some new memory to make sure it's not a problem with the board itself. (It's not a bad slot... all four work with a single stick.)
My system configuration is:
GA-EP35-DS3R (F2 BIOS)
Q6600 CPU (G0 stepping)
8800 Ultra GPU
Corsair 620HX power supply
Vista Ultimate 64-bit
Currently 2x1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667 (the older ones that overclock like crazy)
I'm going to get two 2GB sticks and hopefully that will be easier on the board than 4x1GB. Since I'm not planning to run my Q6600 at over 3 GHz (333x9) or at most 3.2 GHz (400x8), I won't need expensive RAM. I just need a pair of decent 2GB DDR2-800 sticks, but to be safe I want to go with something that is known to work in an EP-35-DS3R, and the RAM list on Gigabyte is out of date and has almost no 2GB sticks listed.
So... does anyone out there gave a GA-EP35-DS3R or a revision 2.1 GA-P35-DS3R (same board except the power savings stuff) with 2x2GB of RAM in it that can recommend some? Newegg has a GeIL CAS4 kit for 100 bucks that looks close to what's on Gigabyte's supported list (a later version of course), but I'd like to get some input from people that have gotten this board to work with 4GB first...
Thanks.
My system configuration is:
GA-EP35-DS3R (F2 BIOS)
Q6600 CPU (G0 stepping)
8800 Ultra GPU
Corsair 620HX power supply
Vista Ultimate 64-bit
Currently 2x1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667 (the older ones that overclock like crazy)
I'm going to get two 2GB sticks and hopefully that will be easier on the board than 4x1GB. Since I'm not planning to run my Q6600 at over 3 GHz (333x9) or at most 3.2 GHz (400x8), I won't need expensive RAM. I just need a pair of decent 2GB DDR2-800 sticks, but to be safe I want to go with something that is known to work in an EP-35-DS3R, and the RAM list on Gigabyte is out of date and has almost no 2GB sticks listed.
So... does anyone out there gave a GA-EP35-DS3R or a revision 2.1 GA-P35-DS3R (same board except the power savings stuff) with 2x2GB of RAM in it that can recommend some? Newegg has a GeIL CAS4 kit for 100 bucks that looks close to what's on Gigabyte's supported list (a later version of course), but I'd like to get some input from people that have gotten this board to work with 4GB first...
Thanks.
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